Friday, October 9, 2015
For the past few days in class Mr. Stewart has repeatedly said "if you believe that you would never do anything bad, then you are more susceptible to doing bad things". There have been a lot of examples in the documentaries that justify what he said, but I also believe that if people have the mindset that they are part of the majority who will just blindly obey, then they are also more likely to do bad things. By allowing ourselves to believe that we are part of the majority, then there is this excuse that "well everyone is doing it", and if more and more people start to believe this, then it almost makes it seem like the capability to do bad things is a norm, like oh it happens, I'm human, it's natural. Those two concepts can go both ways depending on the person and the situation they are put it.
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Lauren,
ReplyDeleteI like that point that you bring up that if so many people are doing the wrong thing, it almost seems to be the norm. I think that it is a sad justification for our actions and that people need to take responsibility for their actions. If that is the normal mindset that people have, one day their actions will catch up with them and they will have to pay the consequences.